15 Best Things to Do in Starke (FL)
About halfway between Jacksonville and Gainesville, Starke is the historic seat of Bradford County. This city dates back to the middle of the 19th century and is couched in bucolic …
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15 Best Things to Do in Vilvoorde (Belgium)
Named for a ford on the River Zenne, the city of Vilvoorde is about 10 kilometres north-east of Brussels and linked to the capital by the Brussels-Scheldt Canal. Vilvoorde gained …
15 Best Things to Do in Turnhout (Belgium)
Home of the international playing card manufacturer Cartamundi, Turnhout is also unofficial capital of the Kempen region, a landscape of heathland, dunes and fens in the north-east of Belgium Turnhout …
15 Best Things to Do in Ostend (Belgium)
The largest city on Belgium’s coast is imbued with a royal flair that goes back to the middle of the 19th century when it became Leopold I’s resort of choice. …
15 Best Things to Do in St. Augustine Beach (FL)
On Anastasia Island, this shorefront city was incorporated in 1959. As the name tells you, it’s right next to St. Augustine, officially the oldest city in the United States. While …
15 Best Things to Do in Genk (Belgium)
An industrial city in Belgian Limburg, Genk experienced a surge of mining activity in the middle of the 20th century as it sits right on the Kempen coal basin. Those …
15 Best Things to Do in Sint-Niklaas (Belgium)
This medium-sized city, capital of Belgium’s Waasland region, has plenty going for it. One plus point is the largest market square in the country, dating back more than 750 years …
15 Best Things to Do in Palm Beach (FL)
A byword for conspicuous wealth since the tycoon Henry Flager built a lavish hotel here in the 1890s, Palm Beach is a world-famous haven for billionaires. In fact there were …
25 Best Things to Do in Tangier (Morocco)
Since 2010, change has swept across this rakish city on the Strait of Gibraltar at a dizzying rate. Heavy investment has moved the container port out of the city, the …
15 Best Things to Do in Tournai (Belgium)
One of Belgium’s oldest cities has a central square over a Gallo-Roman cemetery, and was the birthplace of Clovis I (466-511), founder of the Merovingian dynasty. Grand Place, lovingly reconstructed …